Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images | From | "Michael Chan" <> | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:09:52 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:55 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Tuesday 18 September 2007 19:45, Michael Chan wrote: > > We can compress all the different sections of the firmware. Currently, > > we only compress the biggest chunks and the rest are uncompressed. > > > These zeros should compress to almost nothing. But I agree that the > > firmware is still big. > > You don't need to store and fetch zeros at all. You *know* that > they are zeros, right? So do this: > > - REG_WR_IND(bp, offset, fw->bss[j]); > + REG_WR_IND(bp, offset, 0); > Good point. We can do that. Looking at the file, there are other non- zero data that can be compressed to save some more room.
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